How To Join Rubber Roofing

Proper cleaning is essential.

How to join rubber roofing.

We generally eliminate field seaming by fabricating each roof as a single sheet. Seam tape is laid down to join them together at. Old house web. Use only toluene naptha or white gasoline.

This is the type of system i like to install best one of the key strengths of a rubber roof is the lack of joints and therefore potential leaks epdm rubber membrane can be cut to virtually any size from one piece without joins up to 15m x 30m. Roll out the rubber across the adhesive trim where necessary and check for air bubbles. If everything appears in order wait one half hour for the adhesive to bond and then make any last minute adjustments needed source. It is common on long runs to overlap the two sheets by more than 3 and then cut back the top sheet of rubber membrane once the splice tape has been stuck to the bottom sheet.

Rubber shingles can be used in addition to a flat rubber roof to improve the appearance. Find out how to join an epdm rubber membrane to an existing roofing material. Two or more rubber mats are laid side by side one of which has a top sheet overlap seam flap. Find out how to join an epdm rubber membrane to an existing roofing material such as felt using a termination bar.

Overlap the two rubber membranes by 75mm 3inches overlap the two rubber membrane sheets to be joined by 75mm 3inches.